Tahrir al-Sham
Syrian Islamist military and political organization
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| January 29 2025 | HTS formally completed its dissolution process. |
| January 29 2025 | At the Syrian Revolution Victory Conference in Damascus, Hussein Abdel Ghani announces the dissolution of HTS and its integration into 'state institutions'. |
| January 29 2025 | At the Syrian Revolution Victory Conference in Damascus, Hassan Abdel Ghani announces the dissolution of HTS and several armed factions, declaring they will become part of 'state institutions'. |
| December 2024 | Jaysh al-Badia and Jaysh al-Malahim rejoined Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham after previously leaving |
| December 2024 | Following the overthrow of Assad, HTS spokesman Hassan Abdel Ghani stated that all religions will be free in the new Syrian state. |
| December 30 2024 | HTS leader Ahmed al-Sharaa announced the organization would be dissolved by 4–5 January 2025. |
| December 20 2024 | United States lifted $10-million reward for arrest of HTS leader Sharaa after diplomatic meetings |
| December 17 2024 | Ramzan Kadyrov called for Russia to remove HTS from its terror group list |
| December 8 2024 | HTS, along with other Syrian opposition groups, launches an offensive that leads to the fall of the Assad regime. |
| December 7 2024 | Damascus fell to Syrian opposition forces, including HTS, the Southern Operations Room, and the US-backed Syrian Free Army. Syrian President Assad fled to Russia. |
| December 5 2024 | HTS fighters captured the city of Hama after two days of fighting in neighboring villages and announced plans to advance on Homs. |
| December 4 2024 | HTS captured most of Aleppo and Idlib Governorates and began advancing on Hama. The group deployed its newly developed 'Shahin' suicide drone against regime forces for the first time during the offensive. |
| November 2024 | Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) launched the Northwestern Aleppo offensive, called Operation Deterrence of Aggression, capturing 11 towns and villages in western Aleppo Governorate and the capital of Aleppo within four days. |
| 2023 | Tahrir al-Sham successfully eliminated most of the clandestine networks of Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State, disarmed militias, and established total control over Idlib. |
| 2023 | Abu Ahmed Zakour, the group's general financer, leaves Tahrir al-Sham. |
| 2023 | A U.S. State Department report documented widespread systematic discrimination and violence against women in HTS-controlled Idlib regions, including arbitrary detention, sexual abuse in custody, and potential death sentences for charges like 'adultery' or 'blasphemy'. |
| 2023 | US State Department issued a report documenting Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham's significant obstruction of humanitarian aid in territories under its control, highlighting the group's interference with aid distribution and imposition of arbitrary taxes on humanitarian shipments. |
| June 2023 | HTS and SDF initiate formal diplomatic talks, reaching an agreement to trade fuel supplies between Rojava and Idlib. The negotiations also covered potential joint counter-terrorism efforts and possibilities of a joint civil administration. |
| June 2023 | United States confirmed Joulani severed links to Al-Qaeda in 2016 and sanctioned individuals financing HTS |
| May 2023 | Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) separately propose hosting millions of Syrian refugees following the Arab League's reinstatement of the Assad government. |
| May 2023 | Joulani delivers a speech at the Syrian Salvation Government revolutionary conference, announcing intentions to focus on Aleppo as a strategic gateway to Damascus over the next one to two years. |
| 2022 | Tahrir al-Sham permitted the re-opening of churches in Idlib, enabling Christian residents to celebrate Mass and promising restoration of properties previously seized from Christian citizens. |
| 2022 | The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) issued a report detailing Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham's (HTS) systematic human rights violations, including forced conversions of Druze to Sunni Islam, confiscation of Christian and Druze properties, and widespread arbitrary arrests, torture, and executions in HTS-controlled territories. |
| 2022 | The US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) reported that the Syrian Salvation Government's education ministry instructed schools to block married female students, including underage girls forced into child marriage, from attending public schools and universities. |
| December 12 2022 | İbrahim Kalın, head of Turkish intelligence agency MIT, made a historic visit to Damascus and met with Ahmed al-Sharaa, leader of HTS, marking the first such high-level official visit since rebel takeover. |
| October 2022 | HTS took significant territory and several key settlements during the Aleppo clashes. |
| August 2022 | HTS ideologue Abu Maria al-Qahtani issued a statement demanding the dissolution of Al-Qaeda and urged all AQ branches to cut ties. |
| June 2022 | HTS leader Abu Mohammad al-Julani met with Druze leaders and inaugurated a water supply project for Druze-majority villages in the Harim Mountains. |
| May 2022 | HTS begins negotiations and engages in diplomatic efforts to legitimize its position in northwestern Syria, seeking to present itself as a more moderate governance entity. |
| April 9 2022 | Australia designates Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham as a terrorist organization |
| January 7 2022 | Abu Muhammad al-Joulani inaugurated the Aleppo-Bab al-Hawa International Road, presenting it as part of a development plan for the region. |
| 2021 | HTS launched a policy of repatriating confiscated properties of minorities in North-West Syria and initiated rebuilding of destroyed churches in Idlib. |
| 2021 | Abu Muhammad al-Julani gave an interview to PBS Frontline distancing HTS from Al-Qaeda |
| 2021 | HTS becomes the most powerful military faction within the Syrian opposition. |
| May 2021 | HTS establishes more comprehensive administrative control over areas in Idlib, setting up governance structures and local institutions in territories under its influence. |
| March 1 2021 | HTS intensified its campaign against al-Qaeda affiliate Hurras al-Din in Idlib and began implementing reconstruction projects, including the Bab al-Hawa Industrial City project. |
| February 2021 | HTS intensified its fight against al-Qaeda cells by launching a large-scale crackdown, resulting in the incarceration of many military commanders and leaders of Hurras al-Din. |
| 2020 | HTS allowed the formation of volunteer religious police but quickly dismantled it within months, stating the concept had no place in a modern state. |
| September 2020 | Ongoing terrorist designation by multiple countries |
| March 2020 | After suffering losses in the Dawn of Idlib 2 operation, Turkey launched Operation Spring Shield following the Balyut attack that killed 34 Turkish soldiers, which halted regime forces' advance into Idlib. |
| March 2020 | HTS achieved control of Idlib after dismantling Al-Qaeda networks following a ceasefire agreement |
| March 2020 | HTS launches a military offensive against Syrian government forces in northwestern Syria, challenging the regime's attempts to reclaim territory in Idlib province. |
| January 2020 | Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) merges multiple militant groups in Idlib Governorate, consolidating its power and expanding its territorial control in northwestern Syria. |
| 2019 | Human Rights Watch published a report accusing Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) of torturing local residents who were documenting human rights abuses in territories under their control. |
| 2019 | Abu Hassan al-Hamwi becomes the military wing commander of Tahrir al-Sham. |
| 2019 | HTS successfully defended Idlib from government offensives, establishing a security partnership with the Turkish military against the Assad regime. |
| 2019 | The U.S. government alleged that Tahrir al-Sham was covertly working with al-Qaeda's Syrian branch, despite the group's claims of independence. |
| December 2019 | Escalating rivalry between Al-Qaeda aligned Hurras al-Din and Tahrir al-Sham began to turn violent. |
| November 2019 | The Clingendael Institute analyzed Turkey's policy towards HTS, noting attempts to divide pragmatic and hardline elements within the group. |
| July 10 2019 | Tahrir al-Sham militants launched a significant attack on Syrian government positions near the fortified village of Hamamiyat, resulting in 57 pro-government fighters killed and 44 militants also losing their lives. |
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